Thoughts on Bitcoin: The more utopian scenarios for crypto, whether proponents realize it or not, rely on the notion that crypto remains simultaneously fringe and mainstream. That will be a hard trick to pull off.
Your rebuttals, and more, are considered at the link to my latest Bloomberg column.
A Great Deaf Bear London Review of Books
Quantum philosophy: Four ways physics will challenge your reality ScienceX
Ads All Tell Us To Kill Our Future. Worth Discussing? Counterpunch. Lee Camp.
The Tramp’s Last Bow The Wire
15 Surprising Facts About Reindeer TreeHugger
Ephemeral edible: gingerbread monolith appears on San Francisco hilltop, then collapses Guardian
22 photos reveal what Christmas looked like around the world in 2020 Business Insider
Why companies are not interested in single dose trials (NB: there is a more radical approach available here).
By Feb.1, 90% of all UK cases will be of the more infectious strain. But not yet significant in the United States. And stability in Denmark continues. And a good overview thread
The excellent Dana Gioia on Ray Bradbury
Japan is building wooden satellites to cut space junk
Bad news from South Africa about the new Covid strain
A new population of blue whales is discovered(NYT)
Some drone deregulation has arrived